On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:45:56PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
Is there a utility to eliminate locales other than the native locale from
my machine? Or can I just delete the unneeded directories from the tree?
apt-localepurge
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +, Pollywog wrote:
I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it.
Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but could
not find it there.
I'm late in the thread, so maybe someone's answered you already: it
isn't regexp,
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:44:24AM -0400, User zos wrote:
I'm sorry...its been a super crazy night (and I mean ULTRA) and this has
been bothering me for a while. Is there a specific benefit to not deleting
this stuff after I have decided that I no longer want something installed
on my box?
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:58:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
surely there's a utility out there somewhere--
macutils
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:53:56PM -0500, Cameron Matheson wrote:
This worked great, but they said they needed to be able to do remote
admin. I installed ssh, but they wanted to have X, not the console, and
they had to be able to do it from windoze. I decided VNC was my answer,
so I came up
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:38:55PM -0500, Steve Taylor wrote:
How can I restore the cdrom driver?
you can mount the cdrom as /dev/scd0, or you can modprobe
-r ide-scsi and try again.
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:13:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
In newer kernels this message reads lp1 reported invalid error status
(on fire, eh?).
that should read 'older newer kernels' or something. It means
2.2.x. (in 2.4.x people returned to sanity and put it back)
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:41:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Do let the FAQ maintainer know, then. According to the feedback section,
his address is Robert Kiesling [EMAIL PROTECTED].
I'll wait for 2.4.7 :/
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:08:14AM +, Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres wrote:
Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200
files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have
300 files ?
I'm using bash shell.
you can use xargs (as you've been told already), but
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:32:46PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
Hi all,
I'm running Debian testing with a custom compiled 2.4.5 kernel. Since I've
enabling logging with my iptables rules (at info and warn levels) every
single log is being output to the current console.
set your debug level to
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:47:01AM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
hi
When I try to run mathematica on debian (potato with kernel 2.2.19) I get an
error stating that mathematica fonts are not properly installed. I have
added the mathematica font directory (i.e. subdirectories of
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:37:03PM +0200, vester wrote:
i foolishly deleted /etc/init.d/gdm -- could anyone send me that script
or tell me how to re-install it?
apt-get install --reinstall gdm
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote:
2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char?
I don't know how you'd put it in your .emacs, but C-x f is
set-fill-column, so C-u 72 C-x f would do that for you.
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:41:58AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
1) is the exim filtering mechanism uncharacteristically
lethargic? seems like processing takes heap long time forever.
maybe i missed an option or feature...?
perhaps your exim is launched from inetd, and your load
deliver_load_max
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:33:43PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:55:56AM -0300, John R Lenton wrote:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:41:58AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
3) anybody got some high-power, dual-exhaust, chrome-plated,
twin overhead cam examples of exim
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:04:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
query:
does
seen save ...
stop processing as if you'd said finish?
yes, and they're both redundant: save ... would be sufficient.
If you're really paranoid, you'd use seen save ... *and*
finish :)
Actually, I put the
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't
see eye-to-eye any more.
i've seen people post actual perl code here, which somehow
filters their email. is that mailagent? (i don't want to
give command-line
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
How do I stop telnet sessions coming IN?
don't run telnetd.
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:43:49AM +, Richard Skinner wrote:
I've been searching for info on how to do this for a couple
of days, but now it's time to beg for help...
I use a Debian box at home which I regularly update from
the 'unstable' archive on ftp.debian.org - at the moment
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:55:14PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
I know that SPICE3 is BSD software, and that it comes with the same
license as BSD, but I want to build a SPICE3 deb package so that I can
use it with Oregano from the unstable.
let me know when you do -- I could use it myself.
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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:20:53AM -0400, John Willey wrote:
Yes, /usr/src is EMPTY.
You said it. :)
I append the debian-lovin-kernel-buildin-HOWTO, (c) apt the
#debian bot (not really, but someone on #debian). Enjoy.
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Chris Story wrote:
remove me
send Tony and Vito here your address and a photo, they'll be glad
to remove you. Nothing personal, it's their job.
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:24:30AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
I have a shell script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that synchronizes the system
clock with time servers via rdate. Sometimes the servers can't be
reached, and the rest of my scripts are blocked. Is there a way to say:
You have at most 10
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:17:46PM +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
Hello Alexander,
* Alexander Steinert wrote:
What's the fastest way to do this on the command line?
I think there are more than thousand solutions ;-)
grep ^%%Pages file.ps|awk '{ print $2 }'
any idea why this is 2x as
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:10:37AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just to
find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's
wrong, and no one, not the document maintainer, or anyone who's already
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:27:51AM +1000, Mark wrote:
Currently I am using Netscape for my emails. I know that Mutt will
handle gnupg signitures and encryption etc which Netscape doesn't seem
to. But will Mutt allow me to open .jpg, pdf and word files. Currently
I have Netscape set up to
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
[ ... about fiddling with mutt to get fancy signatures ...]
What I'd really like (and implement if I had the time) is for
mutt to have an option to check on startup if .signature is a
pipe, and if so to write into it the header of
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
How do I deal with the situation where glob(*) is used and where there
are files that contain spaces in their file names?
what situation?
$ touch a\ b c\ d
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r--1 john john0
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:29:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
mailx was made no longer setgid mail in a potato security update because
it was too riddled with security holes, and hence it doesn't have write
permissions to the /var/mail directory. You can still use it for sending
mail, but
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:09PM +0200, Mateusz Mazur wrote:
Hi.
It wasn't good idea to put all questions in one letter. So know I post
it single. I will be very great ful fot any help.
Q:
How should I configure exim to relay mails. People from my office want
send mails to anywhere and
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:27:34AM +0200, Marcel Lanz wrote:
at the moment I parse huge logfiles like /var/log/messages and I am
suprised that the date string doesn't include the year in the timestamp.
The idea I guess is that if you actually keep the logs for more
than a year you're probably
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:23:16PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
I'm running ReiserFS under 2.2.18 with no problems. I've also heard
persistant rumors of not there yet under 2.4, including from several
kernel hackers, and have no plans to migrate until I hear differently.
I haven't talked
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:28:40PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote:
Thanks! You called it right. I had the cable going to my cdrom on /dev/sr1
and not the cdrw on /dev/sr0.
xmms has this wonderful plugin that reads music CDs via the data
cable á la cdparanoia, xmms-cdread. In unstable, at least.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:20:07PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
Is there a simple open source Linux database program
available that can access Dbase IV file types. I have
many Dbase IV files with personal and scientific
information such as a CD library, address file,
medical information, 35mm
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:11:14PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like
that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and
images, it dips into swap, and it does that even when I close most apps. So
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:06:53PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote:
i seem to remember reading that you have to use tar in order to get a
complete copy of a filesystem. unfortunately i dont remember the
details.
GNU cp has the -a option. I've copied my hd several times now using
cp -vax / /mnt
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:52:07PM -0500, Bradley James Reid wrote:
i've got a problem at boot.
my debian system crashes. it's using kernel 2.0.36.
the error follows the check of the hardware.
and the error is:
unable to open initial console
You compiled your own kernel? you've probably
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:24:34PM -0500, hanasaki wrote:
I tried adding an imap server to NS and using netscape to copy all my
folders. Ns bombed! even when copying one folder at a time.
perl. bash, even. Copy the NS folder over to a unix/linux box and
just move it in.
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:08:39PM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote:
I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the
mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out:
Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied
Now if I use mutt, I can delete the message,
Hello all.
I'm looking for an archive (á la archive.debian.org) of the
non-us part of bo. So far I've found dregs of one at wuarchive,
but AFAICT pieces are missing: the Packages file lists
apache-common apache-ssl bzip cfs crypt++el des-solnet mutt-i
pgp-i pgp-us rsaref sambades ssh
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +, fr ml wrote:
Sorry to insist, but does somebody reading this mailing
list have any ideas of the way to resolv this problem.
Or can you give me links or else to help me !
It a project on with I had to figth for Linux to be
considered as an
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